Homeowners’ insurance has become increasingly difficult to afford and harder to get in California and some other states ...

Real estate and climate change now go hand-in-hand. As temperatures and sea levels continue to rise, many homes face some ...

Washington Post staff tried to separate what is happening from what is not, and to explain what may happen in the future.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to list monarch butterflies as threatened species and designate seven ...

Energy demands from big tech, including for AI, has elected officials giving an old power source a second look.

The devastating Los Angeles fires have been a grim reminder of America’s homeowners insurance crisis as climate change intensifies potential property damage and insurers scramble to price rising risk.

For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources.

"Rising temperatures, shifting precipitation, and emerging diseases are among the mélange of climate impacts . . ." ...

You soon could be paying even more for gas at the pump. That’s because of a cynical attempt to use the wildfires tragedy to attack California’s oil companies. Sponsored by state Sen. Scott Weiner, ...

Worldwide warming temperatures are hammering roads that were built for a different climate, ballooning repair budgets and sometimes cutting off communities from goods and services.

Climate change is an intensifier — a force that amplifies and worsens existing conditions. It increases the probability that extreme conditions will compound and become unprecedented.

That is a terrible idea, full stop. Lawmakers shouldn’t use the fires as an excuse to slow down on clean energy — not when scientists say humanity must slash emissions much faster to keep the climate ...